segment
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Wood’s execution generated extensive publicity, including a “60 Minutes” segment in which I, then a Ninth Circuit judge, was interviewed, and then nothing happened.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
“We are not ignoring a very important segment of the audience, which is the Latino population who have always, in my experience, shown an interest in creators from Mexico or from Latin America,” Macias says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
Chipotle shares, meanwhile, have fallen 11.7% over that period, amid a bigger fast-casual slump and malaise over pricier “slop bowls” that have become a staple in that segment of the restaurant industry.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
Drugmakers such as Novartis and other devicemakers have been investing in the segment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
But at the end of the segment, the host flashed a widely shared picture of an eleven-year-old black boy tearfully hugging a white police officer.
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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China’s exports of rare earths, power equipment, printed circuit boards, optical transceiver and mature-node semiconductors represent over 50% of global market share in their respective segments, GS says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
The resulting structure is known as boudinage, a geological process in which a relatively strong layer or body of rock is pulled into separate segments as the surrounding material deforms.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
Bartlett had created the character almost a decade earlier, after a stint producing claymation segments for “Pee-wee’s Playhouse.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Vysotsky said Ukrainians "understand the sensitivity of certain segments for European farmers" and were open to "substantive discussions about adaptation periods, the scale of market access and safeguard mechanisms".
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
In music, the segments are the individual notes of a line in the music.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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These systems demonstrate what segmented detectors can accomplish, but they also reveal a growing problem.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
The 2025 SDR, external recommended a new "segmented approach" to MoD defence procurement to deliver contracts within two years.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
It is the latest example of Apple deploying a decades-old chip industry strategy to squeeze profits from lesser-performing processors by selling them like eggs, gas, diamonds or hotel rooms, segmented by good, better and best.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026
Money should be segmented into three buckets for short-term, medium-term and long-term needs.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 21, 2026
He saw a lot of insects, spiders, and shiny, segmented beetles, going in and out of the twigs.
From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill
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The rise of Geese reflects Gen Z’s broad interest in music from decades-past, which they have unfettered access to thanks to streaming, and a distaste for segmenting sounds into genres, industry observers say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025
The researchers investigated the drug’s effect on numerous subgroups within their sample population, segmenting it by age, heart or lung condition, gender, smoking status or time since symptom onset.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2022
Later that day in John’s class, students broke into small groups to practice writing and segmenting words into different sounds.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 8, 2022
Once you get really good at segmenting people or giving them the right recommendations, you have to have a different way to follow up with every single person.
From The Verge ● Feb. 1, 2022
Blastoderm, blas′to-derm, n. an embryological term applied to the layer or layers of cells arising from the germinal disc, or the portion of a partially segmenting egg which undergoes division.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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